Hear me out...When assault with a deadly weapon is OK

It’s 2017 and we’re hitting, or have passed, the timelines for a lot of futuristic ‘80s and ‘90s movies like “Blade Runner,” “Mission to Mars,” “Back to the Future I and II” and, hilariously, “Timecop,” which was made in 1994 and took place in the distant future of 2004.

With the exception of “Timecop,” I’m not going to bash any of those movies for trying to predict the future. Figuring out the future is tough with endless variables going every which way. But some things you would have thought in 2017 would be long gone....